Argumentative Research Report! Turn it in (and post it on your blog) by Friday and receive a 5% bonus. Otherwise, you can ruin your three-day weekend and turn it in Tuesday, 5/26. Here are the requirements. We will be in the library all week, so you had better take advantage of your time there.

"Week" of March 30. Three Mile Run is Thursday! Get those donation envelopes filled up!
No school Friday; Spring Break begins!

No homework this week. What?!

District Testing is Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in class.

Week of March 23.

Blog House Cleaning: Go back over your most recent ten (10) posts and proofread VERY CAREFULLY. Beginning Friday morning,
I will be reviewing them in the same way as the PERFECT PAPER. Every
mistake will be costly. Fix typos, fragments, run-ons, lame
titles, pictures that don't appear, missing urls, baaaaaad spelling,
misused capitals... whew.

Vocabulary Review test on Friday. Here's the list of lists. I will simply be copying and pasting from previous tests.

KBARBlogging: Read 15-20 minutes per night and reflect/report (100-150 words/night) on the idea of utopia.
Remember to record the urls of the pages you read. Use these search terms each night to find things to read:

Monday night: "fictional utopias"

Tuesday night: "would you want to live in a utopia"

Wednesday night: "utopia examples from history"

Thursday night: "arguments for (against) utopia"

Vocabulary due Tuesday, Wednesday. Extra credit sentences of your own (optional) due Friday.

Digital final draft of first article (including appropriately cited pics/graphics) due by THURSDAY published on your blog. Note new date. Your blog will automatically publish whatever you have at 5 pm, 11/6. Here are the rubrics for the 3 types of essays.

KBAR = MORE Reading for your topic/article. Read 20 minutes, getchartsigned (in notebook)M,T, W, Th.NONFICTION RESPONSE: Please respond 1 paragraph per night using one of the prompts. Use a different one each night. Be prepared to read yours the next day.BONUS OPPORTUNITY: Instead of using your notebook, publish your KBAR responses on a Blogger
blog! Use your @student.slcusd.org account to log in. Create a name for
yourself! Encourage your parents and friend to read and comment
(appropriately)! You must commit to the whole week; I don't want to have to check both places. E-MAIL ME THE LINK FOR YOUR BLOG!UPDATE! If you blog your KBAR this week, you do not need
signatures or a chart. Just be sure to include the source you are
reading!

Digital Rough Draft of First Article due Tuesday, 10/28.
NOTE NEW DATE! On your Google Drive and shared with me with 4
sources in the Works Cited at the bottom. Here are example essays
WITHOUT the research element. But they are still a sample of what we
are looking for.

AW Sentences for any warm ups misseddue the next day.(TheAcademic WordsPretest
consists of the week's warm ups. You must earn 19/20 for the week to be
exempt from that portion of the test. You owe a sentence of your own
for each word you miss on a warm up this week. Those sentences are due
the next day on the back of the AW sheet. Thank you.)

AW Sentences for any warm ups misseddue the next day.(TheAcademic WordsPretest
consists of the week's warm ups. You must earn 19/20 for the week to be
exempt from that portion of the test. You owe a sentence of your own
for each word you miss on a warm up this week. Those sentences are due
the next day IN YOUR NOTEBOOK. Thank you.)